Eltham Hill School
Eltham Hill School is a secondary school for girls and a mixed sixth form located in the Eltham area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London, England.[1]
History
Grammar school
The school was founded as Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls.
Comprehensive
A comprehensive education system was adopted in Greenwich Borough, with the school becoming comprehensive in 1974. The school became a specialist Technology College for a time and was renamed Eltham Hill Technology College, before the Eltham Hill School name was readopted. Today, it is a community school administered by Greenwich London Borough Council.[2]
Eltham Hill School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.[3] Students in the sixth form have the option of studying from a range of A Levels, the International Baccalaureate and the IBCP.[4]
Notable former pupils
Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls
- Sara Coward, actress who played Caroline Sterling/Pemberton/Bone in The Archers
- Anne Dudley, composer of film scores, music producer and arranger, played with the Art of Noise
- Bernardine Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA, writer and Professor of Creative Writing, Brunel University London
- Trudie Goodwin, actress in The Bill
- Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes, Conservative politician and former corporate executive
- Edith Summerskill, physician, feminist, Labour MP from 1938-55 for Fulham West, and from 1955-61 for Warrington, Minister of National Insurance from February 1950 to October 1951
- Ruth Williams Khama, was the wife of Botswana's first president Sir Seretse Khama; she served as the inaugural First Lady of Botswana from 1966 to 1980.
References
- ^ "Eltham Hill School". Elthamhill-greenwich.com. 1 January 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ^ "Eltham Hill School - GOV.UK". Get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ "Curriculum |". Elthamhill.com. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ^ "Post 16 |". Elthamhill.com. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
External links
- Eltham Hill School official website
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